"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

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Source : Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178

Sydney Smith

#Love Quotes #Friendship Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.”
“[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.”
“I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.”
“Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.”

Source : "Friday Interview: Has Feminism Outlived Its Usefulness?". Interview with Mitch Kokai, www.carolinajournal.com. June 3, 2011.
“For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.”
“War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.”
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.”

Source : Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.”

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